Photo of the Day: Safari Animals

Dream Trip 2009 is well under way! For inspiration, here's a new entry that caught our eye:

Pity the poor wildebeest. The Big Five (lion, elephant, water buffalo, rhinoceros, and leopard) are Serengeti celebrities, and safari-goers itch to fill up their memory cards with images of the elusive animals. Wildebeest? Among cognoscenti, the lowly creature, also known as the gnu, elicits a collective "meh."

"One afternoon game drive in the Serengeti we saw several wildebeest," killy writes. "I
felt like they were by far the more boring and unattractive of
characters. After witnessing them up close and
being able to see their colors change from dull brown to luminous
silver as the sun set, they endeared themselves to me. One morning as I
drank my coffee from the hill at camp, I pondered their dark,
constantly moving forms across the valley floor, and I realized how
beautiful they are."

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